Web Search Engine Skills Test
Take the following short test,
adapted from (Korfhage, 1997). The answers themselves are not as important as
how you find them, as well as the problems you encounter and solutions you discover. Allow yourself only
15 minutes for the Pretest to see how many questions you can finish. Use any
search engine you like (e.g., Google, AltaVista, Teoma, Yahoo, etc.). The purpose of this skills test is simply to get you acquainted with the advanced features of today's web search engines, and to give you an appreciation for the complexity of information retrieval tasks.
Pretest